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Yapı Kredi Crypto, the digital-asset unit of major Turkish bank Yapı Kredi, has adopted trading technology from Web3 corporate platform Integral as it moves to launch a cryptocurrency trading service, Bitcoinist reported. Integral is set to provide Yapı Kredi Crypto with pricing, liquidity aggregation and risk management technology.

Three new whale wallets withdrew 23,456 ETH worth $60.37 million from Coinbase three hours ago, according to ai_9684xtpa. Exchange outflows are typically interpreted as a sign of holding intent.

Crypto investment firm Multicoin Capital deposited an additional 67,500 HYPE worth $5.92 million to Coinbase Prime, according to Onchain Lens. That brought Multicoin Capital’s total HYPE transferred to Coinbase Prime over the past four weeks to 760,580 tokens worth $62.99 million.

Nasdaq-listed HYPE accumulation firm Hyperliquid Strategy said it was not the buyer in Hyperliquid Labs’ $320 million over-the-counter sale of HYPE, according to Zoomer News. CEO David Shammas said on X the company was not involved as the purchaser in the transaction.

Cointelegraph, one of the better-known crypto media outlets, is seeking a buyer after a sharp drop in traffic, CoinDesk reported, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter. According to CoinDesk, Cointelegraph was hit by a Google penalty in October 2025 and disappeared from Google search results, cutting organic search traffic by about 80%. Similarweb data showed Cointelegraph’s monthly visits were above 12 million in December 2024, but had fallen to just over 700,000 as of Sept. 1 this year. CoinDesk added the prolonged slump in the crypto market also hurt traffic as user interest shifted away from crypto news. Against that backdrop, Cointelegraph has quietly begun looking for an acquirer, though no target sale price has been disclosed.

Johanna Collins-Wood, Bitwise’s head of legal for U.S. asset management, viewed the U.S. SEC’s proposed overhaul of transfer agent rules as a positive step for the tokenized stock market. In a post on X, Collins-Wood said the SEC’s approach of updating existing securities rules in a technology-neutral way, rather than applying separate rules to crypto tokens, was the right one. Collins-Wood said the key issues are who maintains shareholder registries on blockchain, what rights token holders actually have, and how stock transfer rules apply. Collins-Wood added the SEC specifically proposed separate reporting for tokens directly involved in issuance by companies and tokens issued by third parties, as investors could face losses if a third-party issuer goes bankrupt. Collins-Wood also said the SEC included 175 questions in the proposal and encouraged relevant market participants to submit comments by Nov. 3.

Hashed Open Research, a think tank under South Korean crypto and blockchain venture capital firm Hashed, published a report on Oct. 8 comparing digital asset policies across five major jurisdictions: the U.S., the European Union, Japan, China and South Korea. The report described South Korea as being in a state of high capability but low conversion, saying the country has world-class IT infrastructure and a competitive content industry base but has not sufficiently translated those strengths into institutional competitiveness in the digital asset industry. It added that despite strong technological and industrial capacity, slow interagency policy coordination and regulatory formalization have limited the market’s ability to realize its full potential. As a key task for South Korea, the report pointed to building an execution framework that links policy and the market so pilot projects and regulatory improvements can lead to actual commercialization.

Hyperliquid developer Hyperlabs unstaked 3.75 million HYPE worth about $332 million eight hours ago, EmberCN reported. A CoinNess analysis of EmberCN’s post found the tokens were transferred about four hours ago through five wallets before reaching an address beginning with 0x875, which may belong to an institutional investor that bought HYPE from Hyperlabs through an OTC deal.

CoinMarketCap’s Altcoin Season Index came in at 61, down one point from yesterday. The index is calculated by comparing the price performance of Bitcoin with that of the top 100 coins by market capitalization, excluding stablecoins and wrapped coins. An altcoin season is identified when 75% of the top 100 coins have outperformed Bitcoin over the past 90 days, while the opposite is considered a Bitcoin season. A reading closer to 100 indicates a stronger altcoin season.

The U.S. government transferred a total of 9,261 BTC worth $770 million to Coinbase Prime over two days on Oct. 6-7, Galaxy Research reported. About half of the amount was recovered from the Bitfinex hack, while some of the rest came from assets forfeited by an exchange. Galaxy Research said it also identified 2,456 BTC that had not been previously disclosed entering the government’s Coinbase Prime deposit address, leading it to estimate the tokens were government-seized assets.

Sui said through its official channel it is pursuing an integration with Samsung Wallet that is expected to enable Sui-based USDC transfers on about 82 million Galaxy devices in the U.S. The service will also include a gasless transfer feature, allowing users to send USDC without paying separate network fees. At launch, only USDC will be supported, while the SUI token will not be included. Chae Won-cheol, a vice president who leads the digital wallet team at Samsung Electronics' MX division, said stablecoins have the potential to make global money movement faster and simpler, and added that the partnership with Sui aims to let Galaxy users use stablecoins in Samsung Wallet without the complex steps tied to existing crypto services.

The spot CVD chart is an order-book analysis chart for the BTC/USDT spot trading pair. The upper panel shows the volume heatmap, while the lower panel shows cumulative volume delta, or CVD. - The volume heatmap in the upper panel tracks trading volume at each price level. The background becomes brighter when the price stays in a specific range for an extended period or makes a large move. Brighter areas may act as support or resistance levels. - The cumulative volume delta indicator in the lower panel reflects buy and sell orders by order size. As buy orders increase, the line for the corresponding color rises. The yellow line represents orders between $100 and $1,000, while the brown line represents large orders between $1 million and $10 million.

About $380 million in Bitcoin options is set to expire at 8:00 a.m. UTC today on Deribit, the crypto options exchange. The put/call ratio stands at 0.67, and the max pain price, the level at which the largest number of option buyers lose their premiums, is $84,500. At the same time, about $110 million in Ethereum options is also set to expire. The put/call ratio is 0.80, and the max pain price is $2,600, according to Deribit.

CoinMarketCap’s in-house crypto fear and greed index came in at 61, down five points from yesterday, while remaining in the greed zone. The index indicates extreme fear as it moves closer to zero and extreme optimism as it approaches 100. CoinMarketCap calculates the gauge based on price movements among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, market volatility, derivatives-market indicators such as put/call ratios, the stablecoin supply ratio, or SSR, and CoinMarketCap’s own search data.

The U.S. Defense Department ordered U.S. Central Command several days ago to complete all preparations for a possible resumption of large-scale military operations against Iran, Axios reported, citing U.S. officials. The directive did not include a specific start date for any attack, and President Donald Trump has not made a final decision. According to the outlet, U.S. and Israeli sources said military operations could resume before the U.S. midterm elections and possibly before the Israeli elections scheduled a week earlier.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin warned that advances in AI could render existing cryptographic systems obsolete sooner than expected, adding that even lattice-based cryptography, often seen as quantum-resistant, may not be safe. Buterin also stressed there is no need to rush to move assets to other wallets immediately. In a post on X, Buterin said, "AI가 2년 안에 50년치 수학적 진전을 이뤄낸다면 타원곡선뿐 아니라 격자 기반 암호도 현재 예상보다 훨씬 쉽게 뚫릴 수 있다. 이런 우려 때문에 린 이더리움(Lean Ethereum)은 지난 1년간 격자 기반 기술 대신 해시 기반 방식을 택해 왔다. 번거롭지 않다면 거래에 사용하지 않은 주소에 자산을 보관하는 편이 좋지만, 잘못된 이전으로 손실을 볼 수 있다는 점도 주의해야 한다." Earlier, Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake had advised gradually moving assets to fresh unused addresses, saying the point at which AI could derive private keys from ECDSA public keys may arrive within months.

Toss has completed a proof of concept with Kwangju Bank for QR payments using stablecoins, Digital Asset reported. The test was designed to verify a scenario in which Kwangju Bank customers make offline in-store purchases with stablecoins through the Toss app. Under the setup, when a Kwangju Bank customer selects stablecoin payment in the bank’s app, the linked Toss app opens immediately and automatically launches a QR scanner.

Solana-based decentralized exchange Orca and DeFi protocol Loopscale are merging to relaunch as Formation, The Block reported. Terms of the merger were not disclosed, and Loopscale co-founder Luke Truitt will serve as CEO. Formation plans to combine Orca’s trading infrastructure with Loopscale’s lending and investment vaults to support everything from asset issuance and fundraising to trading. The company also aims to expand beyond crypto into capital-intensive industries including AI, energy, robotics, and defense, while longer term seeking to offer services that can access regulated U.S. capital markets. The existing Orca and Loopscale protocols will remain in place after the merger as the foundation of the ORCA and xORCA token networks.

VS Trust, a trust established in Delaware, filed a preliminary prospectus with the U.S. SEC on Oct. 7 for the registration of 3x leveraged ETFs tied to major assets including Bitcoin and Ethereum. According to materials shared on X by Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart, the six proposed ETFs are designed to deliver three times the daily returns of gold (GLDU), silver (SLVK), Bitcoin (BITH), Ethereum (ETHK), crude oil (OILY) and natural gas (NATX). The filing came after the SEC approved a rule change on Oct. 2 for listing the ETFs on Cboe BZX. Additional procedures are still required before actual trading can begin.

Stablecoins are currently the most suitable tool for micropayments made by AI agents, according to a Coinbase Institute report. The institute said legacy payment networks such as cards face limits in micropayments because of fixed per-transaction costs and human-centered identity verification systems, while stablecoins can handle cross-border micropayments with low fees and fast settlement. It added that the open payment standard x402 standardizes the process for AI agents to pay per use for content or data. The report also stressed that policies are needed to allow open standards and a range of payment methods so the AI agent payments market does not become dependent on closed systems run by a small number of companies.

The KOK coin case, widely known in South Korea as an alleged multitrillion-won pyramid-style crypto fraud, remains unresolved after several years, while some people tied to the case have reportedly moved into new business ventures. According to Yonhap News, former Medium Foundation Chairman Kim, identified as a KOK coin associate, was sent to trial nearly two years ago, but no first-instance ruling has yet been issued. As the legal process has dragged on, some KOK coin associates have reemerged as executives at a blockchain technology company in Seoul’s Gangnam district. Local media previously reported that the company had signed memorandums of understanding with banks, securities firms and fintech companies.

Blockchain infrastructure firm Paxos said on X it has added XRP support to its institutional crypto trading service, Paxos Crypto Brokerage. As a result, partners can now offer XRP trading to customers through the existing Paxos platform. According to Paxos, XRP, which has been in circulation since 2012, is currently held in more than 8.1 million wallets and has a market capitalization of about $95 billion.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said NEAR Protocol is already delivering business results through its cross-chain transaction service Intents and could see additional upside if the AI agent market grows. In a post on X, Hougan said Intents' cumulative transaction volume has surpassed $30 billion and is expected to generate about $45 million in fee revenue this year. Hougan added some of that revenue will be used for token buybacks. Hougan also said NEAR is preparing for the AI agent market by building high-throughput and cross-chain capabilities, as well as private AI infrastructure, and remains competitive on its existing businesses, including Intents, even if AI agents do not grow as much as expected.

Sixty-four percent of millennial cryptocurrency holders plan to make additional purchases over the next year, according to a survey report released by U.S. financial firm Charles Schwab, Crypto Briefing reported. The report found cryptocurrency ranked first among the asset classes millennials most want to invest in, followed by ETFs in second, stocks in third, bonds in fourth, and mutual funds in fifth. It also showed 33% of millennials currently hold cryptocurrency, compared with 22% of Gen Z respondents and 8% of baby boomers. The survey was conducted between Aug. 24 and Sept. 17 this year among 2,000 Americans ages 21 to 75.

The three major U.S. stock indices closed lower today. - S&P 500: -0.22% - Nasdaq: -0.22% - Dow Jones: -0.66%